Today, befriend a stranger, or if you feel up to more of a challenge, befriend a loved one.

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.

Cherish the friend who tells you a harsh truth, wanting ten times more to tell you a loving lie.

You can spend too much time wondering which of identical twins is the more alike.

What greater blessing to give thanks for at a family gathering than the family and the gathering.

Ever wonder what crime you committed that you are confined to a small enclosure above your sinuses, under permanent skull arrest?

If minutes were kept of a family gathering, they would show that "Members not Present" and "Subjects Discussed" were one and the same.

It finally happened. I got the GPS lady so confused, she said, "In one-quarter mile, make a legal stop and ask directions.

For the most part, we carnivores do not eat other carnivores. We prefer to eat our vegetarian friends.

On a windswept hill by a billowing sea, my destiny sits and waits for me.

It is not that love is blind. It is that love sees with a painter's eye, finding the essence that renders all else background.

It's so often that I read for the bouncy, sunny girl men fall in love with who will solve all the romantic problems in the narrative. I don't choose to work that way.

Dearest darling, how I love you. Words cannot tell how much I love you. So forget it.

I had a turnover and three missed shots down the stretch. I just have to make sure I calm my nerves.

I'm a Lebanese woman who directs films. That's not it at all. I am not really a woman nor am I really an Arab. Because I am not an apologist for women, nor of sentimental "world" films.

I support anyone's right to be who they want to be. My question is: to what extent do I have to participate in your self-image?

The issue of poverty is not a statistical issue. It is a human issue.

I do need to travel with a purpose, though. I can't go somewhere to just hang out with friends.

My government will respect the will of the people.

If you are playing bad you are going to lose here, on clay, on ice, or on the beach.

Sometimes I feel that the people I'm writing are more real to me than the people around me. When you take that imaginative leap, you're living so much in that world.